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Friday, December 2, 2011

An Advanced Style Short

I started Advanced Style a little more than three years ago. When I first moved to New York I was living in Williamsburg, working at The New Museum book store, and shooting stylish ladies and gentleman on my days off. Almost everyday I would get sandwiches and tea from a local cafe, down the street. I met an awesome young woman by the name of Lina Plioplyte. She was working at the cafe and interning for Nylon Magazine, doing film and editing. One day I came in to get a sandwich and told Lina, " I just moved here will you be my friend." She laughed, but I knew that we would become great friends one day.

Lina got a job with Nylon and I saw her once in a while at art shows. One day she sent me a message over Facebook saying, " I want to make a film about your stylish older ladies." I was excited to meet with her and hear all of her ideas.Two and a half years later, we have been filming the Advanced Style ladies in all their sartorial splendor. We have compiled wonderful and inspiring footage, that will not only change people's perception of aging, but will also make us all look forward to the freedom that comes with getting older.

Last March we posted a short trailer of our work on NOWNESS. Here is an extended version of our edit, which debuted in October, at Diane Pernet's, A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival in Paris.Lina and I hope to complete our film by next year, but for now I hope you enjoy the new edit above.For more great work by filmmaker Lina Plioplyte CLICK HERE.

Ari, you and Lina did an amazing job with the video. Love the ladies. All of them are beautiful, stylish, intelligent women and wonderful role models for the younger set! The best part of being over fifty is that we know who we are and aren't so worried about any one else's ideas of who we should or should not be..

Oh this is wonderful Ari. I see that by You Tube that we can embed and so I am definitely going to share this video on my blog and of course give you the credit. I think my fellow bloggers would love to see this. Thanks Ari, love it.

These clothes are absolutely fabulous. If you love fashion, imagine the fun of shopping with any of these women. Advanced Style is such a fitting name, not only because of the women and their years, but because I cannot imagine a younger person being able to carry these clothes. They are so at once wordly, sophisticated while at the same time artistic and whimsical in such a manner that you have to have lived an amount of years for them to suit you at all. If that makes any sense.

This is just perfect. Wonderful. Perfectly wonderful. It's lovely to actually hear the voices belonging to the ladies of Advanced Style - not only do they jump off the page, they jump off the film as well!

Hi, I'm 38 and writing because I just wanted to say I find your blog so empowering. At my age I'm leaving youth behind while feeling and looking better than 20 years ago. The beautiful images you show make me look forward to what I may become, instead of regreting what I had or did not have when I was (wrongly) supposed to be at my prime. Keep up the good work, you supply us with role models that go way beyond fashion.